Entrepreneurship & Innovation- a COIL Project with HWR Berlin

“Many students in my class had never been to Germany before the course, so it was an excellent chance for us to view life from a different perspective and participate in a good student exchange without being away from Finland for too long.” The Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin (HWR Berlin) is a valued…

Sara Blakely

by Ulfat Shah “I pledge to invest in women because I believe it offers one of the greatest returns on investment.”  (Sara’s World.)                           A visionary & powerful female entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Spanx Sara Blakely. She created foundation with the aim of empowering women and signed The Giving Pledge. She added; “With this pledge…

Metropolia Meet & Greet company networking event 14.11.2019 at 10-14

We are proud to present for the first time ever: Metropolia Meet & Greet company networking event. Are your plans for the future still open? Do you need an internship? Would you like to network with companies but don’t know how? Now is the time to update your CV and meet potential future employers at…

Working for yourself for placement

Prativa Bhusal IBL15  3 months placement as CEO of PK Clothing in Helsinki Feb – April 2018 A small number of students choose to work for their own company as their work placement and we in Metropolia do encourage this. Our criteria state that the company must already be established before the work placement starts…

Alumni story: My journey to entrepreneurship

I’m Sandra Lusmägi, a graduate of Metropolia Business School. I started my studies in International Business and Logistics in 2013 and graduated in the summer of 2016. I am from Estonia, a small country very close to Finland, with a similar language and culture as Finnish, but still it was a big decision for me…